Improvement in stove-pipe shelves



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

TIMOTHY HILL, OF FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, PA.

IM PROVEM ENT IN STOVE-PI PE SAH ELVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,087, dated June 18, 1878 application filed February 23, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, TIMOTHY HILL, of Fairfield township, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stove-Shelves, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a top or plan "iew of my invention; Fig. 2, a detail plan view of one of the clamps, and Fig. 3 a central section taken on the line a b. I

The object of my invention is to construct a shelf to place on a stove-pipe above the stove, on which plates or dishes may be placed, in combination with a rack to hang clothes to dry, and to construct the same of wroughtiron, so that it may be light and strong, and so that it may be easily removed.

A B is a hoop of thin iron. E E and D D are two clamps, (better shown at Fig. 2.) These clamps have a circle at F, to clasp around the stove-pipe, and are bolted together by the screw-bolts 1, 2, 3, and 4. Extending from these clamps to the hoops A B are arms m m m m, or spokes, also constructed of thin wrought-iron, set edgewise up and down to give strength.

0 O is a wire passing through holes in the spokes. 5'6 7 are arms of wood, with a slot at their inner end, which spans the wire 0 O, as shown at G 0, Fig. 3. On these arms clothes may be hung.

By using the clamp D D with one-half of the shelf it may be attached to a stove standing near a wall or chimney.

I claim as my invention- A shelf constructed with a wrought-iron hoop, A B, the spokes m m m m, the wire 0 G, and the clamps D D E E, in combination with the wooden arms 5 6 7, constructed as described, for the purposes set forth.

TIMOTHY HILL.

' Witnesses:

J. T. WHITE, G. H. BIRCH. 

